"You would generally get a warning about something like this. You don't come out and give 75 tickets or whatever she did without any kind of a warning," said Ford.

Some residents believe the unexpected tickets is about money.

"If she wrote 100 tickets, that's $10,000 they made real quick in one day," said Gilbert.

"We don't look at it as a way to make money its jut enforcing an ordinance," said Charles Locke with Oklahoma City Code Enforcement. "It's trying to improve the neighborhoods. You have to realize that when you have people running across or driving across existing utility lines that deteriorates those lines."

He said everyone should be aware of the law.

"We've published it, its been on the news, its been in the newspaper. Its been a law since 1988." said Locke.